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The Cyber-Crow Attacks!

This Venetian mask looks like a crow-headed alien assimilated by the Borg. Kaibara on Flickr found this mask among a bizarre cyborg mask collection in Venice. Click through for an image of the whole set.

2:00 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By charliejane
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Tommmcatt at 02:16 PM on 01/23/08
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Crow Mask = Awesome

Other Masks = Do. Not. Want.
wishnevsky at 02:28 PM on 01/23/08
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Cool. technosavage funk
tetracycloide at 02:31 PM on 01/23/08
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making a cyberpunk venetian mask, a how to guide:

step 1: buy generic mask with desired degree of facial coverage
step 2: cover mask in hot glue
step 3: dump old circut boards and wires on mask
step 4: trim edges
step 5: spray point gun metal grey or rhone
wishnevsky at 04:51 PM on 01/23/08
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Bork! Bork! Bork!.... i mean Borg! Borg! Borg! Swedish Cyberchef.
helenanapier at 04:55 PM on 01/23/08
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Is the beak shape a reference to plague-doctor masks? Like this ([en.wikipedia.org])?
aerrin99 at 06:09 PM on 01/23/08
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@helenanapier:

Very probably. Plague doctor masks are rampant in Venice, for Carnevale.
urukhaifive at 10:13 PM on 01/23/08
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@helenanapier: I had never seen these before. Very cool and delightfully creepy.
SeeingI at 07:17 AM on 01/24/08
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Yeah, the crow one is the only cool one - mainly because it looks like a techono-fetish version of a traditional Carnival mask, and not a fan-made Borg mask.